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No. 741,407. PATENTED 0GT.13,1903. W. 0. MoGARTER.

CHECKBOOK STUB.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12,1903. N0 MODEL.

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WILLIAM G. MOOARTER, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

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BPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,407, dated October13, 1903.

Application filed .Tune 12, 1903. $erial No, 161,151. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM 0.1llCOARTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State ofMinnesota,haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvements in Check-BookStubs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

My invention relates to check'book stubs, and has for its object theprovision of a form of stub upon which a convenientrecord may be kept ofthe dates and amounts of deposits, the numbers, dates, amounts, andcharacter of checks drawn, and the balances remaining after deductingthe amounts of checks'from time to time drawn from previous amounts fromtime to time on deposit or after adding new deposits to previousbalances.

With these objects in View it consists of the stub hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of one of said stubs embodyingmysaid invention. Fig. 2 is a-plan view of my said inven tion, showingthe same as used.

In the drawings, 1 is a stub preferably adapted at one edge'to be boundinto a checkbook and integral at the oppositeedge with checks (notshown) adapted to be torn from said stub, said arrangement being-wellknown to the art and not deemed necessary to be herein particularlydescribed or illustrated, or, if desired, said stub may be bound as aseparate leaf facing a page of checks in a check-book; Upon said stubare printed vertically-arranged guide-lines demarking column-spaces,which, respectively,-fr0m left to right, are adapted to receive, first,as ate, the name or the abbreviation of the name of the month ofdeposit; second, as at b, the number of the day of the month of deposit;third, as at c and 0?, respectively, the integers and decimalsindicating the amount of deposit; fourth, as at c and f, respectively,the,inte gers and decimals indicating the amount of the check drawn;fifth, as at g and h, respectively, the integers and decimals indicatingthe balance remaining after deducting the amount of the check from theamount of the previous deposit or balance. The form further consists ofa series of horizontal lines ar ranged in groups of four at intervals,the first line, as am', of each of which groups is adapted to support acheck-number; the second line, as at 7t, of each of which groups isadapted to support a check-date; the third line, as at Z, of each ofwhich groups is adapted to support the name of the payee of said check,and the fourth line, as at m, of each of which groups is adapted tosupport astatement of the purpose for which such check is drawn. Thespace, as at n, between the groups of horizontal lines may be utilizedfor a continuation of such statement or for other memoranda, as desired.Said horizontal lines extend from any convenient point or points-as, forexample, from a marginal line to at the leftto the divisional line atthe right between the depositdate column and the deposit-amount column.At the beginning of each of said lines 2', 70, Z,

and m is preferablyprinted memoranda indicating the nature of the recordto be written thereon. At the head of said stub are arranged spaces inwhich are printed memoranda to indicate the nature of the matter to beinserted in the coin mns below said spaces,respectively. At the foot ofsaid stub are arranged spaces marked by vertical and horizontaldivisional lines in which is printed, first, as at o, memoranda toindicate the nature of the matter to be inserted in the next two spacesto the right thereof; second, as at p and q, respectively, for theinsertion of the integers and decimals of any balance brought forwardfrom the previous stub-page and inserted at the head of the column ofbalances; third, as at r, in which is printed memoranda indicating thenature of the matter to be inserted in the spaces to the right thereof;fourth, as at s andt, for the insertion of the integers and decimalsdenoting the total amount of deposits, including the balance broughtfrom the previous page; fifth, as at o and w, for the insertion of theintegers and decimals denoting the total amount drawn by checks; sixth,as at g and e, for the insertion of the integers and decimals of thecross-balance re maining after deducting the total amount drawn bychecks from the total amount of deposits, which balance should agreewith the last previous cross-balance in the same column. Marginal lines1, 2, and 3 are also shown, which, with the marginal line 00, are

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preferred, but not regarded as essential to said stub.

It will be obvious that my said invention operates to secure anarrangement of the various items which enables cross-balances to beconveniently struck after each entry and afinalcross-balance to beconveniently struck from the totals. The agreement between the lastbalance struck from individual entries and the balance struck from thetotals will prove the correctness of the balances.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patout, is-- Acheok-book stub embodyingaform adapted to receivea record of the dates and amounts of individual deposits, the numbers,dates, names of payees, purposes of payments and amounts of checksdrawn, the balances remaining after deducting the amount drawn by eachcheck from the respectively previous balance on deposit, or afteraddinga new deposit to the previous balance on deposit, the

total amount of individual deposits, the total amount drawn by checksand the final balance from said totals, said stub having column-spacesdemarked and appropriately designated thereon respectively for theinsertion of the dates of deposits, the amounts of deposits, the amountsof checks and the balances, and having a column of groups at verticalintervals of parallel horizontal lines ruled thereon, which lines ineach group are respectively designated and adapted to support the recordof the number of a corresponding check, the date when said check isdrawn, the name of the payee of said check, and the purpose of payment,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM C. MOCARTER.

Witnesses:

FRED A. LEWIS, JAMES T. WATSON.

